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Indigenous communities lead fight to stop illicit mining in Loreto that is poisoning the water and destroying its forests
Although there have been few studies on levels of contamination in Loreto’s waters, researchers farther south in Peru’s Madre de Dios region have been able to document the widespread and severe impacts of artisanal mining on local livelihoods and the environment.
Corine Vriesendorp, an ecologist at the Field Museum in Chicago and director of its Andes-Amazon programme, says: “Mercury is showing up in the leaves of canopy trees and the bodies of howler monkeys,” adding that the metal “quickly becomes pervasive and has real human-health impacts.”
Vriesendorp believes the proliferation of illegal mining in Nanay shows how complex the situation has become.
“It is in the back yard of Iquitos, which is where the regional government is, and the fact that they have not been able to control it, recognising that it is fundamental for the wellbeing of everyone who lives there, suggests this is a massive challenge,” she says.In Allpahuayo-Mishana national reserve, which MAAP says has also been affected by illegal mining, #Sernanp, Peru’s authority for protected natural areas, has trained park rangers in surveillance and other conservation strategies to prevent illegal mining.
Herman Ruíz Abecasis, the reserve’s director, says:
“We have been supporting joint actions to fight against illegal mining on the Nanay River, providing the necessary support within our institutional reach.”Peru’s melting glaciers bring new harvests – and fears for the future
During an environmental summit in August, Peru’s president, Dina Boluarte, and the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, agreed to protect the Amazon and its Indigenous inhabitants from the climate crisis, ecological devastation and crime.
At the end of the two-day meeting, Amazonian leaders signed the 🔸 Belém Declaration🔸, which includes a commitment to combat illegal mining and strengthen regional and international cooperation. However, critics said the declaration was much weaker than hoped.
“This is a force that is totally beyond what governments are capable of taking on and what local people are taking on,” Vriesendorp says.
“Drugs, arms, timber and other illegal economies in the Amazon tend to be quite connected, and they are run by armed groups and actors. It’s very hard as an individual, whether you are a park guard or community president, to take those things on. We have to attack the root drivers of this demand.”
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‘This river is doomed’:
Peru’s gold rush threatens waterways and the people who depend on them | Global developmentLoreto used to be considered a peaceful region in Peru, but not any more.
José Manuyama Ahuite was born at the confluence of the Ucayali and Tapiche rivers in Requena, 100 miles (160km) south of Iquitos, a port city and the gateway to the Indigenous peoples of the northern Amazon.He moved to the town in 2004, before the miners brought pollution to the Nanay River and destruction to surrounding forests.
“The river forms part of our spirit and culture. If the river dies, so does our human dignity,” he says.
“Now this river is doomed.
The colour of the water is changing, and the same devastation in other mining areas is beginning to be reproduced here in the Nanay.”As president of the Water Defence Committee in Iquitos, created to address threats to the region’s rivers, he says their goal is to end pollution in the Nanay.
“Many leaders and neighbours who live in the basin live threatened and afraid in their own communities,” Manuyama says. “We hope we don’t go through the same thing.”In recent years, illegal mining has expanded rapidly throughout Peru’s Loreto region as miners have become emboldened by the absence of authorities and rising gold prices.
The activity has affected the quality of water, bringing the threat of pollution and disease to more than 170,000 Indigenous inhabitants across the Peruvian Amazon.
Dredgers have been found in several rivers across the region, including the Marañón, Napo, Putumayo and Nanay rivers, says Abel Chiroque Becerra, head of Loreto’s ombudsman’s office.
The current situation has been exacerbated by a lack of opportunities for residents and neglect by the Peruvian state, he says.
Protected areas and Indigenous reserves have been heavily affected.
“It is a great concern because of the pressure on our rivers,” says one Kichwa Indigenous leader who wishes to remain anonymous. “As they continue to pollute the rivers, they bring diseases because people consume the fish.”
A recent report from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project ( #MAAP ) has exposed the scale and impact of illegal gold mining in Peru’s Loreto region.
More than 11 large rivers are affected by illegal mining, it found, covering three protected natural areas and 31 Indigenous territories.
Communities have learned to employ technology to identify threats and report environmental crimes in collaboration with #Orpio, the organisation of Indigenous people of Peru’s eastern Amazon, an ecological monitoring programme.
“We monitor not only the rivers but also illegal logging, burning, invasions and drug trafficking,” the Kichwa leader says. “We see where people are causing an impact on communities, such as the presence of mining, and we try to control it.”
But those fighting the criminals face considerable danger.
The forest is already mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world
José Manuyama Ahuite, river defender
The Kichwa leader is one of many environmental defenders to have faced intimidation and threats from illegal miners while patrolling the region.“When we filed complaints, I received threats from the miners because they could no longer work freely or easily enter communities,” they say. “They told me I had to withdraw the complaints from the prosecutor’s office.
“Other colleagues have been threatened by weapons, and that presented a real fear for me and my family.”
The Loreto region, which covers almost a third of Peru’s territory and borders Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, is considered one of the world’s most biologically diverse regions.
It accounts for only 5% of the Amazon basin by area but harbours up to 40% of its terrestrial vertebrate species and has the largest peat deposits in the basin.Manuyama says: “The mining has had a devastating impact on our environment. The forest is already depredated and mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world.”
The mining in the region is artisanal, an intensive operation that studies show worsens water quality, disrupts the natural flow of water, and pollutes rivers and streams with high concentrations of mercury. Environmentalists and biologists fear this activity will damage aquatic ecosystems and threaten the food security of Indigenous communities who depend on these rivers.
Andrea Buitrago, director of the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development ( #FCDS ) in Peru, says the toxic metal leaches into the Amazon’s watercourses, “poisoning Indigenous communities in the region and local populations that consume the contaminated fish”.(1/2)
#indigenousrights #amazonia #peru #equidor #brazil
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‘This river is doomed’:
Peru’s gold rush threatens waterways and the people who depend on them | Global developmentLoreto used to be considered a peaceful region in Peru, but not any more.
José Manuyama Ahuite was born at the confluence of the Ucayali and Tapiche rivers in Requena, 100 miles (160km) south of Iquitos, a port city and the gateway to the Indigenous peoples of the northern Amazon.He moved to the town in 2004, before the miners brought pollution to the Nanay River and destruction to surrounding forests.
“The river forms part of our spirit and culture. If the river dies, so does our human dignity,” he says.
“Now this river is doomed.
The colour of the water is changing, and the same devastation in other mining areas is beginning to be reproduced here in the Nanay.”As president of the Water Defence Committee in Iquitos, created to address threats to the region’s rivers, he says their goal is to end pollution in the Nanay.
“Many leaders and neighbours who live in the basin live threatened and afraid in their own communities,” Manuyama says. “We hope we don’t go through the same thing.”In recent years, illegal mining has expanded rapidly throughout Peru’s Loreto region as miners have become emboldened by the absence of authorities and rising gold prices.
The activity has affected the quality of water, bringing the threat of pollution and disease to more than 170,000 Indigenous inhabitants across the Peruvian Amazon.
Dredgers have been found in several rivers across the region, including the Marañón, Napo, Putumayo and Nanay rivers, says Abel Chiroque Becerra, head of Loreto’s ombudsman’s office.
The current situation has been exacerbated by a lack of opportunities for residents and neglect by the Peruvian state, he says.
Protected areas and Indigenous reserves have been heavily affected.
“It is a great concern because of the pressure on our rivers,” says one Kichwa Indigenous leader who wishes to remain anonymous. “As they continue to pollute the rivers, they bring diseases because people consume the fish.”
A recent report from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project ( #MAAP ) has exposed the scale and impact of illegal gold mining in Peru’s Loreto region.
More than 11 large rivers are affected by illegal mining, it found, covering three protected natural areas and 31 Indigenous territories.
Communities have learned to employ technology to identify threats and report environmental crimes in collaboration with #Orpio, the organisation of Indigenous people of Peru’s eastern Amazon, an ecological monitoring programme.
“We monitor not only the rivers but also illegal logging, burning, invasions and drug trafficking,” the Kichwa leader says. “We see where people are causing an impact on communities, such as the presence of mining, and we try to control it.”
But those fighting the criminals face considerable danger.
The forest is already mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world
José Manuyama Ahuite, river defender
The Kichwa leader is one of many environmental defenders to have faced intimidation and threats from illegal miners while patrolling the region.“When we filed complaints, I received threats from the miners because they could no longer work freely or easily enter communities,” they say. “They told me I had to withdraw the complaints from the prosecutor’s office.
“Other colleagues have been threatened by weapons, and that presented a real fear for me and my family.”
The Loreto region, which covers almost a third of Peru’s territory and borders Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, is considered one of the world’s most biologically diverse regions.
It accounts for only 5% of the Amazon basin by area but harbours up to 40% of its terrestrial vertebrate species and has the largest peat deposits in the basin.Manuyama says: “The mining has had a devastating impact on our environment. The forest is already depredated and mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world.”
The mining in the region is artisanal, an intensive operation that studies show worsens water quality, disrupts the natural flow of water, and pollutes rivers and streams with high concentrations of mercury. Environmentalists and biologists fear this activity will damage aquatic ecosystems and threaten the food security of Indigenous communities who depend on these rivers.
Andrea Buitrago, director of the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development ( #FCDS ) in Peru, says the toxic metal leaches into the Amazon’s watercourses, “poisoning Indigenous communities in the region and local populations that consume the contaminated fish”.(1/2)
#indigenousrights #amazonia #peru #equidor #brazil
#oilpollution #riverpolution -
‘This river is doomed’:
Peru’s gold rush threatens waterways and the people who depend on them | Global developmentLoreto used to be considered a peaceful region in Peru, but not any more.
José Manuyama Ahuite was born at the confluence of the Ucayali and Tapiche rivers in Requena, 100 miles (160km) south of Iquitos, a port city and the gateway to the Indigenous peoples of the northern Amazon.He moved to the town in 2004, before the miners brought pollution to the Nanay River and destruction to surrounding forests.
“The river forms part of our spirit and culture. If the river dies, so does our human dignity,” he says.
“Now this river is doomed.
The colour of the water is changing, and the same devastation in other mining areas is beginning to be reproduced here in the Nanay.”As president of the Water Defence Committee in Iquitos, created to address threats to the region’s rivers, he says their goal is to end pollution in the Nanay.
“Many leaders and neighbours who live in the basin live threatened and afraid in their own communities,” Manuyama says. “We hope we don’t go through the same thing.”In recent years, illegal mining has expanded rapidly throughout Peru’s Loreto region as miners have become emboldened by the absence of authorities and rising gold prices.
The activity has affected the quality of water, bringing the threat of pollution and disease to more than 170,000 Indigenous inhabitants across the Peruvian Amazon.
Dredgers have been found in several rivers across the region, including the Marañón, Napo, Putumayo and Nanay rivers, says Abel Chiroque Becerra, head of Loreto’s ombudsman’s office.
The current situation has been exacerbated by a lack of opportunities for residents and neglect by the Peruvian state, he says.
Protected areas and Indigenous reserves have been heavily affected.
“It is a great concern because of the pressure on our rivers,” says one Kichwa Indigenous leader who wishes to remain anonymous. “As they continue to pollute the rivers, they bring diseases because people consume the fish.”
A recent report from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project ( #MAAP ) has exposed the scale and impact of illegal gold mining in Peru’s Loreto region.
More than 11 large rivers are affected by illegal mining, it found, covering three protected natural areas and 31 Indigenous territories.
Communities have learned to employ technology to identify threats and report environmental crimes in collaboration with #Orpio, the organisation of Indigenous people of Peru’s eastern Amazon, an ecological monitoring programme.
“We monitor not only the rivers but also illegal logging, burning, invasions and drug trafficking,” the Kichwa leader says. “We see where people are causing an impact on communities, such as the presence of mining, and we try to control it.”
But those fighting the criminals face considerable danger.
The forest is already mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world
José Manuyama Ahuite, river defender
The Kichwa leader is one of many environmental defenders to have faced intimidation and threats from illegal miners while patrolling the region.“When we filed complaints, I received threats from the miners because they could no longer work freely or easily enter communities,” they say. “They told me I had to withdraw the complaints from the prosecutor’s office.
“Other colleagues have been threatened by weapons, and that presented a real fear for me and my family.”
The Loreto region, which covers almost a third of Peru’s territory and borders Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, is considered one of the world’s most biologically diverse regions.
It accounts for only 5% of the Amazon basin by area but harbours up to 40% of its terrestrial vertebrate species and has the largest peat deposits in the basin.Manuyama says: “The mining has had a devastating impact on our environment. The forest is already depredated and mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world.”
The mining in the region is artisanal, an intensive operation that studies show worsens water quality, disrupts the natural flow of water, and pollutes rivers and streams with high concentrations of mercury. Environmentalists and biologists fear this activity will damage aquatic ecosystems and threaten the food security of Indigenous communities who depend on these rivers.
Andrea Buitrago, director of the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development ( #FCDS ) in Peru, says the toxic metal leaches into the Amazon’s watercourses, “poisoning Indigenous communities in the region and local populations that consume the contaminated fish”.(1/2)
#indigenousrights #amazonia #peru #equidor #brazil
#oilpollution #riverpolution -
‘This river is doomed’:
Peru’s gold rush threatens waterways and the people who depend on them | Global developmentLoreto used to be considered a peaceful region in Peru, but not any more.
José Manuyama Ahuite was born at the confluence of the Ucayali and Tapiche rivers in Requena, 100 miles (160km) south of Iquitos, a port city and the gateway to the Indigenous peoples of the northern Amazon.He moved to the town in 2004, before the miners brought pollution to the Nanay River and destruction to surrounding forests.
“The river forms part of our spirit and culture. If the river dies, so does our human dignity,” he says.
“Now this river is doomed.
The colour of the water is changing, and the same devastation in other mining areas is beginning to be reproduced here in the Nanay.”As president of the Water Defence Committee in Iquitos, created to address threats to the region’s rivers, he says their goal is to end pollution in the Nanay.
“Many leaders and neighbours who live in the basin live threatened and afraid in their own communities,” Manuyama says. “We hope we don’t go through the same thing.”In recent years, illegal mining has expanded rapidly throughout Peru’s Loreto region as miners have become emboldened by the absence of authorities and rising gold prices.
The activity has affected the quality of water, bringing the threat of pollution and disease to more than 170,000 Indigenous inhabitants across the Peruvian Amazon.
Dredgers have been found in several rivers across the region, including the Marañón, Napo, Putumayo and Nanay rivers, says Abel Chiroque Becerra, head of Loreto’s ombudsman’s office.
The current situation has been exacerbated by a lack of opportunities for residents and neglect by the Peruvian state, he says.
Protected areas and Indigenous reserves have been heavily affected.
“It is a great concern because of the pressure on our rivers,” says one Kichwa Indigenous leader who wishes to remain anonymous. “As they continue to pollute the rivers, they bring diseases because people consume the fish.”
A recent report from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project ( #MAAP ) has exposed the scale and impact of illegal gold mining in Peru’s Loreto region.
More than 11 large rivers are affected by illegal mining, it found, covering three protected natural areas and 31 Indigenous territories.
Communities have learned to employ technology to identify threats and report environmental crimes in collaboration with #Orpio, the organisation of Indigenous people of Peru’s eastern Amazon, an ecological monitoring programme.
“We monitor not only the rivers but also illegal logging, burning, invasions and drug trafficking,” the Kichwa leader says. “We see where people are causing an impact on communities, such as the presence of mining, and we try to control it.”
But those fighting the criminals face considerable danger.
The forest is already mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world
José Manuyama Ahuite, river defender
The Kichwa leader is one of many environmental defenders to have faced intimidation and threats from illegal miners while patrolling the region.“When we filed complaints, I received threats from the miners because they could no longer work freely or easily enter communities,” they say. “They told me I had to withdraw the complaints from the prosecutor’s office.
“Other colleagues have been threatened by weapons, and that presented a real fear for me and my family.”
The Loreto region, which covers almost a third of Peru’s territory and borders Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, is considered one of the world’s most biologically diverse regions.
It accounts for only 5% of the Amazon basin by area but harbours up to 40% of its terrestrial vertebrate species and has the largest peat deposits in the basin.Manuyama says: “The mining has had a devastating impact on our environment. The forest is already depredated and mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world.”
The mining in the region is artisanal, an intensive operation that studies show worsens water quality, disrupts the natural flow of water, and pollutes rivers and streams with high concentrations of mercury. Environmentalists and biologists fear this activity will damage aquatic ecosystems and threaten the food security of Indigenous communities who depend on these rivers.
Andrea Buitrago, director of the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development ( #FCDS ) in Peru, says the toxic metal leaches into the Amazon’s watercourses, “poisoning Indigenous communities in the region and local populations that consume the contaminated fish”.(1/2)
#indigenousrights #amazonia #peru #equidor #brazil
#oilpollution #riverpolution -
‘This river is doomed’:
Peru’s gold rush threatens waterways and the people who depend on them | Global developmentLoreto used to be considered a peaceful region in Peru, but not any more.
José Manuyama Ahuite was born at the confluence of the Ucayali and Tapiche rivers in Requena, 100 miles (160km) south of Iquitos, a port city and the gateway to the Indigenous peoples of the northern Amazon.He moved to the town in 2004, before the miners brought pollution to the Nanay River and destruction to surrounding forests.
“The river forms part of our spirit and culture. If the river dies, so does our human dignity,” he says.
“Now this river is doomed.
The colour of the water is changing, and the same devastation in other mining areas is beginning to be reproduced here in the Nanay.”As president of the Water Defence Committee in Iquitos, created to address threats to the region’s rivers, he says their goal is to end pollution in the Nanay.
“Many leaders and neighbours who live in the basin live threatened and afraid in their own communities,” Manuyama says. “We hope we don’t go through the same thing.”In recent years, illegal mining has expanded rapidly throughout Peru’s Loreto region as miners have become emboldened by the absence of authorities and rising gold prices.
The activity has affected the quality of water, bringing the threat of pollution and disease to more than 170,000 Indigenous inhabitants across the Peruvian Amazon.
Dredgers have been found in several rivers across the region, including the Marañón, Napo, Putumayo and Nanay rivers, says Abel Chiroque Becerra, head of Loreto’s ombudsman’s office.
The current situation has been exacerbated by a lack of opportunities for residents and neglect by the Peruvian state, he says.
Protected areas and Indigenous reserves have been heavily affected.
“It is a great concern because of the pressure on our rivers,” says one Kichwa Indigenous leader who wishes to remain anonymous. “As they continue to pollute the rivers, they bring diseases because people consume the fish.”
A recent report from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project ( #MAAP ) has exposed the scale and impact of illegal gold mining in Peru’s Loreto region.
More than 11 large rivers are affected by illegal mining, it found, covering three protected natural areas and 31 Indigenous territories.
Communities have learned to employ technology to identify threats and report environmental crimes in collaboration with #Orpio, the organisation of Indigenous people of Peru’s eastern Amazon, an ecological monitoring programme.
“We monitor not only the rivers but also illegal logging, burning, invasions and drug trafficking,” the Kichwa leader says. “We see where people are causing an impact on communities, such as the presence of mining, and we try to control it.”
But those fighting the criminals face considerable danger.
The forest is already mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world
José Manuyama Ahuite, river defender
The Kichwa leader is one of many environmental defenders to have faced intimidation and threats from illegal miners while patrolling the region.“When we filed complaints, I received threats from the miners because they could no longer work freely or easily enter communities,” they say. “They told me I had to withdraw the complaints from the prosecutor’s office.
“Other colleagues have been threatened by weapons, and that presented a real fear for me and my family.”
The Loreto region, which covers almost a third of Peru’s territory and borders Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, is considered one of the world’s most biologically diverse regions.
It accounts for only 5% of the Amazon basin by area but harbours up to 40% of its terrestrial vertebrate species and has the largest peat deposits in the basin.Manuyama says: “The mining has had a devastating impact on our environment. The forest is already depredated and mortally wounded. Illegal mining will destroy the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem, which is serious for the world.”
The mining in the region is artisanal, an intensive operation that studies show worsens water quality, disrupts the natural flow of water, and pollutes rivers and streams with high concentrations of mercury. Environmentalists and biologists fear this activity will damage aquatic ecosystems and threaten the food security of Indigenous communities who depend on these rivers.
Andrea Buitrago, director of the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development ( #FCDS ) in Peru, says the toxic metal leaches into the Amazon’s watercourses, “poisoning Indigenous communities in the region and local populations that consume the contaminated fish”.(1/2)
#indigenousrights #amazonia #peru #equidor #brazil
#oilpollution #riverpolution -
After 50 years of one #seabird colony fighting its way back from near #extinction, it now faces new threats https://phys.org/news/2023-07-years-seabird-colony-extinction-threats.html
"#SkomerIsland off the coast of #Wales has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in its #guillemot population... population decline was probably caused by #OilPollution... The population has consistently grown at an annual rate of about 5% since the 1980s... But #seabirds now face pressing threats—with #ClimateChange emerging as one of the most significant challenges."
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A new 100-page report raises alarm over #Chevron’s impact on planet
by Genevieve Belmaker, Laurel Sutherland on 28 October 2021
- An independent expert report has determined that of the 70 ongoing cases in 31 countries against Chevron, only 0.006% ($286-million) in fines, court judgements, and settlements have been paid. The company still owes another $50.5-billion in total globally.
- The largest of those payout judgements is for $9.5 billion in environmental damages representing 30,000 plaintiffs in #Ecuador where the oil damage is so severe, it’s known as the “Amazon Chernobyl”.
- #Brazil, #Argentina, and #Venezuela are amongst a number of countries in #Africa, #Asia, the #MiddleEast, #LatinAmerica and beyond where there are ongoing litigations against Chevron. In the U.S. alone, there are 13 ongoing litigations against Chevron.
- The same day the report was released, international #HumanRights lawyer #StevenDonziger, lead attorney on the #Chevron #Ecuador case, was imprisoned. His incarceration came after nearly two years of house arrest in New York City and an intense legal battle for his freedom.
#PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #ClimateActivists #Texaco #OilPollutionRead more:
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/a-new-100-page-report-raises-alarm-over-chevrons-impact-on-planet/ -
2020: #Chevron is refusing to pay for the '#Amazon #Chernobyl' – we can fight back with citizen action
The lawyer challenging the oil company’s #ToxicWaste dump in #Ecuador is under house arrest. We need a boycott
by Alec Baldwin and Paul Paz y Miño
"In 2001, #Chevron acquired #Texaco, including all of its assets and civil liabilities. One of those liabilities was the “Amazon Chernobyl”, a 1,700-square-mile #EnvironmentalDisaster in Ecuador that Texaco created through a disregard – and an attitude that local #Indigenous groups have called racism – for the health of the region’s peoples. Texaco, the sole operator of the fields from 1964 to 1992, eventually admitted that it deliberately discharged 72bn litres of #toxic water into the environment, which ended up in the #water supply, and gouged 1,000 unlined waste pits out of the jungle floor. According to several Indigenous witnesses, including Humberto Piaguaje, a leader of the Ecuadorean #Secoya people, the company actually claimed that the oil wastes were medicinal and 'full of vitamins'.
"Studies have shown thousands of excess cases of cancer deaths and other health problems in the region.
"Chevron insists that Texaco is only responsible for a portion of the damage, has 'already cleaned up its share' and attributes any remaining pollution to Ecuador’s state-owned national oil company. The government of Ecuador has been clear, in turn, that Chevron is liable for all of the damage."
#PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #OilPollution
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2020: #Chevron is refusing to pay for the '#Amazon #Chernobyl' – we can fight back with citizen action
The lawyer challenging the oil company’s #ToxicWaste dump in #Ecuador is under house arrest. We need a boycott
by Alec Baldwin and Paul Paz y Miño
"In 2001, #Chevron acquired #Texaco, including all of its assets and civil liabilities. One of those liabilities was the “Amazon Chernobyl”, a 1,700-square-mile #EnvironmentalDisaster in Ecuador that Texaco created through a disregard – and an attitude that local #Indigenous groups have called racism – for the health of the region’s peoples. Texaco, the sole operator of the fields from 1964 to 1992, eventually admitted that it deliberately discharged 72bn litres of #toxic water into the environment, which ended up in the #water supply, and gouged 1,000 unlined waste pits out of the jungle floor. According to several Indigenous witnesses, including Humberto Piaguaje, a leader of the Ecuadorean #Secoya people, the company actually claimed that the oil wastes were medicinal and 'full of vitamins'.
"Studies have shown thousands of excess cases of cancer deaths and other health problems in the region.
"Chevron insists that Texaco is only responsible for a portion of the damage, has 'already cleaned up its share' and attributes any remaining pollution to Ecuador’s state-owned national oil company. The government of Ecuador has been clear, in turn, that Chevron is liable for all of the damage."
#PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #OilPollution
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2020: #Chevron is refusing to pay for the '#Amazon #Chernobyl' – we can fight back with citizen action
The lawyer challenging the oil company’s #ToxicWaste dump in #Ecuador is under house arrest. We need a boycott
by Alec Baldwin and Paul Paz y Miño
"In 2001, #Chevron acquired #Texaco, including all of its assets and civil liabilities. One of those liabilities was the “Amazon Chernobyl”, a 1,700-square-mile #EnvironmentalDisaster in Ecuador that Texaco created through a disregard – and an attitude that local #Indigenous groups have called racism – for the health of the region’s peoples. Texaco, the sole operator of the fields from 1964 to 1992, eventually admitted that it deliberately discharged 72bn litres of #toxic water into the environment, which ended up in the #water supply, and gouged 1,000 unlined waste pits out of the jungle floor. According to several Indigenous witnesses, including Humberto Piaguaje, a leader of the Ecuadorean #Secoya people, the company actually claimed that the oil wastes were medicinal and 'full of vitamins'.
"Studies have shown thousands of excess cases of cancer deaths and other health problems in the region.
"Chevron insists that Texaco is only responsible for a portion of the damage, has 'already cleaned up its share' and attributes any remaining pollution to Ecuador’s state-owned national oil company. The government of Ecuador has been clear, in turn, that Chevron is liable for all of the damage."
#PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #OilPollution
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2020: #Chevron is refusing to pay for the '#Amazon #Chernobyl' – we can fight back with citizen action
The lawyer challenging the oil company’s #ToxicWaste dump in #Ecuador is under house arrest. We need a boycott
by Alec Baldwin and Paul Paz y Miño
"In 2001, #Chevron acquired #Texaco, including all of its assets and civil liabilities. One of those liabilities was the “Amazon Chernobyl”, a 1,700-square-mile #EnvironmentalDisaster in Ecuador that Texaco created through a disregard – and an attitude that local #Indigenous groups have called racism – for the health of the region’s peoples. Texaco, the sole operator of the fields from 1964 to 1992, eventually admitted that it deliberately discharged 72bn litres of #toxic water into the environment, which ended up in the #water supply, and gouged 1,000 unlined waste pits out of the jungle floor. According to several Indigenous witnesses, including Humberto Piaguaje, a leader of the Ecuadorean #Secoya people, the company actually claimed that the oil wastes were medicinal and 'full of vitamins'.
"Studies have shown thousands of excess cases of cancer deaths and other health problems in the region.
"Chevron insists that Texaco is only responsible for a portion of the damage, has 'already cleaned up its share' and attributes any remaining pollution to Ecuador’s state-owned national oil company. The government of Ecuador has been clear, in turn, that Chevron is liable for all of the damage."
#PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #OilPollution
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2020: #Chevron is refusing to pay for the '#Amazon #Chernobyl' – we can fight back with citizen action
The lawyer challenging the oil company’s #ToxicWaste dump in #Ecuador is under house arrest. We need a boycott
by Alec Baldwin and Paul Paz y Miño
"In 2001, #Chevron acquired #Texaco, including all of its assets and civil liabilities. One of those liabilities was the “Amazon Chernobyl”, a 1,700-square-mile #EnvironmentalDisaster in Ecuador that Texaco created through a disregard – and an attitude that local #Indigenous groups have called racism – for the health of the region’s peoples. Texaco, the sole operator of the fields from 1964 to 1992, eventually admitted that it deliberately discharged 72bn litres of #toxic water into the environment, which ended up in the #water supply, and gouged 1,000 unlined waste pits out of the jungle floor. According to several Indigenous witnesses, including Humberto Piaguaje, a leader of the Ecuadorean #Secoya people, the company actually claimed that the oil wastes were medicinal and 'full of vitamins'.
"Studies have shown thousands of excess cases of cancer deaths and other health problems in the region.
"Chevron insists that Texaco is only responsible for a portion of the damage, has 'already cleaned up its share' and attributes any remaining pollution to Ecuador’s state-owned national oil company. The government of Ecuador has been clear, in turn, that Chevron is liable for all of the damage."
#PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #OilPollution
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#StevenDonziger: The man who stood up to an oil giant, and paid the price
Rex Weyler
26 February 2020"The link between #ecological protection and #HumanRights is evident in #Ecuador’s #Amazon basin, where massive #OilPollution has destroyed #forests and #farms and left some of the world’s poorest people with #BirthDefects and a #cancer epidemic. In 1993, Ecuador’s Frente de Defensa de la Amazonía (FDA), representing 30,000 victims of #Chevron’s toxic oil waste, asked Donziger to help them win compensation for what is likely the largest oil-related human disaster in history."
#PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #FreeDonziger #PardonDonziger
#BigOil #BigEnergy #Chevron